Rabbi Lauren Tuchman

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  • 929 Rabbi Lauren Tuchman Isaiah 46 reflection

    December 26, 2019 This reflection originally appeared as part of the 929 Project, the study of a chapter of the Jewish Bible or Tanakh each day.   Isaiah’s prophecies regarding the fall of the Babylonian Gods are presented in stark contrast to the constancy, unfaltering G-d of Israel. Unlike the…

  • Rabbi Tuchman featured in the Washington Jewish Week

    From March 1, 2019, the Washington Jewish Week: https://washingtonjewishweek.com/51967/inclusion-is-not-an-investment-rabbi-says/news/local-news/

  • Dickinson College Alumna Profile

    https://www.dickinson.edu/news/article/3836/life_of_service

  • Journeys: the magazine of the United Synagogue for Conservative Judaism

    Leaders Up: Rabbi Lauren Tuchman https://journeys.uscj.org/through-a-different-lens-first-blind-woman-rabbi-talks-life-judaism-and-inclusion-as-she-sees-it/

  • Rabbi Lauren Tuchman Featured in SDI Encounters

    SDI Encounters: the Podcast of Spiritual Directors International interviews Rabbi Lauren Tuchman https://sdiencounters.podbean.com/e/ep027-rabbi-lauren-tuchman-new-contemplatives/

  • Baalotecha 5779

    Our parsha this week is Behaalotecha, the third parsha in the Book of Numbers. We are introduced this week to the second Passover or Pesach Sheni which falls on the 14th of Iyyar, exactly one month after Passover. Pesach Sheni allowed those who were unable to offer the Passover sacrifice…

  • Behar 5779

    Parashat Behar, our Torah reading for this week, introduces us to the Shmita year. Every seven years, Leviticus/Vayikra instructs us that the land must lie fallow—no agricultural or food production is permitted and there are a number of other restrictions put into place as well. The number seven holds great…

  • Emor 5777

    Author’s note: This commentary was written in May, 2017, in the Jewish year 5777 and was significantly updated in 5779. The LORD spoke further to Moses: Speak to Aaron and say: No man of your offspring throughout the ages who has a defect shall be qualified to offer the food…

  • Kedoshim 5779

    It has become something of a cliché in the circles I run in these days that when a teacher of Torah or a clergyperson from any religious tradition, for that matter, sits down to write a sermon, the sermon they often write is that which they most need to hear.…

  • Pesach 5779

    One of the central obligations of Pesach, as we read in the Haggadah is that we each, individually, have the obligation to see ourselves as though we ourselves went out of Egypt. The story of the Jewish people’s liberation, then, becomes a collective, national retelling beyond time, space and generation.…